#pride

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#advancing #african #backwards #been #being

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#alive #before #broke #down #filmed

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#books #cite #covers #deadly #enlightenment

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#nation #pride #pure #religion #virtuous

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bit #constitutes #dearly #freedom #little

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#far #i #know #opinion #pride

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #despair #god #humble #jesus

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. ↗

— William Penn

#clothes #costly #excel #humility #ignorance

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ↗

— Petrarch

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy